Background
His father was Richard Venables, vicar of Nantmel and then archdeacon of Carmarthen.
His father was Richard Venables, vicar of Nantmel and then archdeacon of Carmarthen.
He was educated at Eton College, Charterhouse School, and Jesus College, Cambridge.
He became a Fellow of Jesus College. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1836, and was in practice for over 40 years. He also wrote much journalism from the mid-1850s, as a leader writer for the London Times and the Saturday Review.
His literary connections included time at Charterhouse with William Makepeace Thackeray (they fought).
The character George Warrington in Pendennis is said to be based on Venables. He wrote an anonymous book of verse Joint Compositions (1848) with Henry Lushington.
